Should a couple be allowed to abort a child just because it is not the desired
gender? No. It is like asking -- Should a child be allowed to get rid of a
parent because the parent is not the child's gender?

Everyone hear that? By
self-righteous moral decree, from hereon forward no one ought be granted an
abortion lest rightascension approve of it. It shall no longer be known as
"pro-choice" but rather "pro rightascension's choice".

PLM/Nan BW - Both of you list "exceptions" for abortion, so in those
cases does God simply not consider the fetus to be alive? How and why does God
pick and choose? And how is it that you both "know" which specific
abortions God decides to "look the other way" on? Or, if rape/incest is
involved, is the baby no longer an "innocent life" therefore making it
worthy of termination?

I'm sorry but either all abortions are
murder/taking a life, no exceptions, or none of them are. You cannot simply
drift between "murder" and "exception" based on your personal
belief that the manner of conception, etc... matters.

Further, if
you're LDS, like I am, you are unfortunately mistaken to "believe"
abortion is murder.

A child is not a choice. This is tantamount to murder. Have the child and let
it out for adoption, then have another if you wish. It is appalling to think of
the trite reasons people have for doing abortions.

Those on the political right (like the Christian Concern) find this news
abhorrent for all the wrong reasons. Abortion of female fetuses ought not be
wrong because of some archaic, sexist, white-knight protection of the female
gender. It's wrong simply because abortion is wrong.

What's interesting here is the news' potential impact on the
political left. What's going to happen when a woman's "right to
choose" (which the left has worked so hard to pedestalize) so obviously and
disparately impacts other females? Technology has finally caught up to
abortion. It now reveals its irony: A woman's "right to choose"
means passing along that same right to fewer future women. Priceless!

LOGIT: You took the words right out of my comment. Abortion has already
lessened the communityof Liberals, why not women. And if you don't
believe it's true, just look at China, where the more wealth go into
the back country of China to buy girls to be raised for their son's future wives.

In parts of British Columbia, Canada, while pregnant women do have ultrasounds
during their pregnancies as per the general practice, they CANNOT be told the
baby's gender. There are good reasons for that. Particularly in the lower
mainland of B.C., there is a very large east Indian population. It is common
knowledge that a male baby is prized over a female baby in the culture. Ergo,
NO ONE, no matter what race they are, are told what their baby's gender is,
because it is simply unconstitutional to take the baby's life based on
gender. Therefore, my daughter and my son had to wait until their children were
born to find out what gender they were, JUST LIKE I, AND WOMEN THE WORLD OVER
HAVE BEEN DOING FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS!!! It didn't hurt the parents one
iota. They were glad that those parameters were in place.

Church doctrine is clear on the matter. No need
for debate. From True to the Faith:

"Latter-day prophets have
denounced abortion, referring to the Lord’s declaration, “Thou shalt
not . . . kill, nor do anything like unto it” (D&C 59:6). Their
counsel on the matter is clear: Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints must not submit to, perform, encourage, pay for, or arrange
for an abortion. If you encourage an abortion in any way, you may be subject to
Church discipline.

Church leaders have said that some exceptional
circumstances may justify an abortion, such as when pregnancy is the result of
incest or rape, when the life or health of the mother is judged by competent
medical authority to be in serious jeopardy, or when the fetus is known by
competent medical authority to have severe defects that will not allow the baby
to survive beyond birth.

But even these circumstances do not
automatically justify an abortion. Those who face such circumstances should
consider abortion only after consulting with their local Church leaders and
receiving a confirmation through earnest prayer."

Feminists have reached the pinnacle of hypocrisy and horror in claiming to
advance women's rights while at the same time mandating the homicide of an
unborn human for THE SOLE REASON that she is female.

1.96 - Church doctrine is clear, unfortunately not clear enough for you to
correctly comprehend. Our Church views some instances of abortion unfavorably
b/c it is viewed as an attempt to avoid consequences of a decision, not because
it is murder.

1 - D&C 59:6 has footnotes, one of them relating
to the word "like". All references, Ex. 22:19; Lev. 18:22; 1 Cor. 6:9;
1 Tim. 1:10., are referring to sexual impurity, not killing. When reading the
scripture in entirety with footnotes and punctuation, the "nor do anything
like unto it" is exclusively referencing adultery.

2 - When
describing exceptions, the phrase "such as" suggests the list is not
exhaustive. As I noted above, each scenario ought be the exclusive decision of
those involved - not for the masses to determine.

3 - As you note,
an "approved" abortion is discussed w/ ecclesiastical leaders and God
via "earnest prayer." This automatically implies that God can
"okay" an abortion. So, is God sanctioning the murder of an innocent
unborn child? That must be the case if your perspective is to remain
consistent. Please, explain your inconsistency or explain why God inspires us
to murder His innocent, unborn children.

I'm befuddled by people who find the idea of aborting a baby based on
gender abhorrent, yet, somehow they feel that simply killing a baby just because
it's a baby is somehow more acceptable. It's like the case about a
year ago where the boyfriend fed his girlfriend the day after pill. The man was
being prosecuted for murder (and rightly so) but it leaves one asking why is it
is legally ok for the mom to kill a baby without the dads permission but
it's not ok for the dad to kill his baby without the moms permission. We
live in a messed up world.